Sorry

Highlights from Google's year-end video roundup.

Either I’m getting senile, or YouTube had a banner year for entertaining videos in 2012. (Are we still calling them “viral videos?” No? OK then.) The online video colossus was good enough to ruin my morning productivity on Monday with an impressively complete retrospective, so here’s a look at the best tech-related YouTube clips to make the roundup.

Crazy hillbilly IT guy Tommy Jordan blasted his daughter’s laptop into smithereens with a .45 after reading an insulting Facebook post she’d written, in a display of emotional maturity that makes it difficult to understand why his kid would’ve tried to keep the post private in the first place. So strange.

Most 9-year-olds…well, to be honest, I don’t really know what 9-year-olds are doing these days, but building classic arcades is probably not a popular activity. Young Caine Monroy, however, made his own games out of cardboard and tape. A short film posted to YouTube got massively popular overnight.

Rapper Tupac Shakur was murdered in 1996, but he nevertheless took to the stage at Coachella music festival in April thanks to expensive image projection technology. Help me, Tupac, you’re my only hope.

Total nut Felix Baumgartner, doubtless wanting to one-up the train from the last slide, rode a PROMINENTLY RED BULL-SPONSORED capsule to the edge of space and then hopped off. One of the top comments on the video argues that this is cooler than the Mars rover landing, which should remind us all to never, ever read YouTube comments.